Shower-bath attachment.



B. BADANES.

SHQWER BATH ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1911.

Patented July 23, 1912.

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-- Attyr BERNARD BADAN-ES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOWER BATH ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 27, 1911.

Patented July 23, 191 2.

Serial No. 640,755.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, BERNARD BADANES, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the borough of Bronx, in the county of New York, city andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inShower-Bath Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to shower bath attachments, andhas for itsobject the construction of a simple and' convenient device forregulating the flow of cold and hot water. I

p The invention consists of the hereinafter described features ofconstruction as pointed out in the claims.

In .the drawings, the invention is embodied in a concrete and preferredform, but changes of construction may of course be made withoutdeparting from' the-legitimate and intended scope of the invention asdefined in the claims.

In the said drawings: Figure 1 is a. view in front elevation showing theshower bath attachment embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1 with a section through thesupporting wall. Fig. 3 is a broken detail view of the valve operatingmeans looking in a direction opposite to that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 isa sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a sectional viewthrough the mixing valve with the valve body in its closed position.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thedifferent views.

1 indicates a supporting wall provided with the upper bracket 2 andlower bracket 3.- Carried by the upper bracket 2 is the mixing valve 4,shower head 5 and curtain ring 6.

The mixing valve is composed of a valve casingv 7 havingv the cold waterinlet 8 connected to the cold .water pipe 9 andthe hotv water inlet 10connected to the hot water pipe 11 The valve-basing- .iurthenhasanoutlet common to tidth. the hot and cold Water and connectedby meansv ofthe pipe 13 to the shower head .5.

In the valve casing there ..is a rotatable valve body 14 provided withamain passage 15fextendin in a vertical direction or longitudinally oth'e'axis of the rotatable valve body and connecting with the out-let.-,T he valve body furtherIhas-twoauxiliary passages 16 and 17 spaced adistance apart circumferentially less than the distance apart of the twoinlets 8 and 10 and extend- 'ing from the main passage aforesaid.

Connected with the rotatable valve body is an upright rotatable shaft 19secured in position by means of the pin 20. This shaft is also seated at21 in the lower bracket 3 and'is provided with a bevel gear 22. On thelower bracket there is a' stud 23 carrying the bevel gear 24 meshingwith the gear 22. Mounted on the stud 23 is a handle 25 to the back ofwhich, gear 24 is made fast, and

this handle carries the pointer 26 positioned circumferentially withrespect to the mixlng valve so as to indicate the operative position ofthe same on the dial 27 which latter is also mounted on the bracket 3.28 is a member forming stops for the operating handle 25.

\Vhen the handle 25 is operated, motion will be transmitted through theshaft 19 so as to move the valve body from its closed position to theopen position with the cold water inlet in'communication with theoutlet. The pointer 26 will now point to the word Cold on the dial 27.Upon further operation of the handle 25, both the hot and cold waterinlets will be brought into communication with the outlet, and thepointer 26 will stand opposite the word Warm on the dial 27. Stillfurther operation of the handle 25 will close the cold water and open upthe hot water fully, and the pointer 26 will now be opposite the wordHot on the dial 27.

One of the great advantages of my in 'vention resides in the fact thatby placing the mixing valve overhead at ii point substantially in linewith the shoit n head, it is not necessary to bring the water supplypipes down to a point within reach of the bather. Ordinarily the mixingvalve (01' valves, as the case may be), is laced right in the watersupply pipes so t at in order to place the mixing valve (or valves)within reach ofthe bather it has been necessary to extend the watersupply pipes in an exposed condition up past the bather/ According to.myinventio-n the water supply pipes lead direct to the mixing valve,ex-" tending thereto .in substantially the same horizontal plane withthe valve. The mix' ing valve is disposed overhead substantially v inwiththe.ehower head, ainzl'the; mix

ing valve is operated and controlled by operating mechanism whichthrough a suit able connection is extended down to a point within easyreach of the user. This arrangement practically eliminates all eX- posedpiping; it is no longer necessary to extend the dangerous hot Water pipeup on the outside of the Wall past the bather; the Water is led directto the mixing valve at a point closely adjacent to the shower-head sothat it is not given an opportunity to cool and the whole device is muchneater in appearance than the ordinary shower bath with its exposed andcumbersome system of piping, valves, etc.

What is claimed, is:

-1. The combination of an upper wall bracket, a mixing valve and ashower head carried by said bracket, a lower wall bracket, a rotatableshaft extending from the mixing valve on the upper bracket to the lowerbracket and supported by the latter, and

Lessee means for turning said shaft lower bracket.

2. In a shower bath, an overhead mixing valve, an overhead shower headconnected thereto, a wall bracket supporting the min ing valve andshower head, hot and cold water supply pipes leading direct to themixing valveand extending thereto in substantially the same horizontalplane with the mixing valve, a movable valve elementto the mixing valve,and a rotatable operating rod extending from the overhead mixing valvedown to a pointowithin easy reach of the bather.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New Yorkthis 20th day of July A. D. 1911.

BERNARD BADANES.

Witnesses:

AXEL V. BEEKEN, LAURA E. SMITH.

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